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Overheard chat leads to kidney donation for stranger

GOOCHLAND COUNTY, Va. -- During a conversation with her best friend last May, Cheyenne Swinson opened up to her classmate, Ashley Flippen, about her dad's illness.

"I was just telling her about how he got sick every morning, and she's like, 'Why?' I told her the situation and that he was on the kidney waiting list," Cheyenne told CBS affiliate WTVR-TV in Richmond, Va.

But it wasn't just the two teens who heard the conversation.

Ashley's mother, Crissi Flippen, an instructional assistant at Goochland High School, also overheard the girls.

"When I heard it, I just automatically asked her to have her mom call me to see what I needed to do to be tested," Crissi Flippen said.